the key.to Berlin Fashion TV
Thursday, May 28th, 2009 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Environment, Fashion, Grass Routes on Tour, Recycling, Trends & Marketing | No Comments »currently you don't hear too much here on the blog because we're putting all our energy in supporting new green fashion events like thekey.to, build a new office, a new website and also need holidays sometimes. Here on this video ...
Grass Routes Presents: thekey.to, International Event for Green Fashion & Culture in Berlin
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Consume, Design, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | 4 Comments »thekey.to is the new international fair for green fashion and sustainable lifestyle. Between 1st and 4th July 2009, a selection of sustainable fashion labels ranging from street-wear to high fashion will be on display in Berlin. The chosen brands are ...
Humana - People to Profit
Friday, March 13th, 2009 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Recycling | No Comments »"People to people" is their slogan. And considering the accusation of Humana being a cult, this slogan gets a slightly different sound. While you think you post your old clothes to charity when donating them to the Humana box, you ...
Nike and Creative Commons Launch Open Knowledge Sharing Project on Sustainability
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Posted in Blog, Environment, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | 2 Comments »The world is turning upside down. Nike and Creative Commons recently launched GreenXchange, "an open innovation platform that promotes the creation and adoption of technologies that have the potential to solve important global or industry-wide challenges". For the movement of open ...
Ecofashion Network Party Revisited
Sunday, February 1st, 2009 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | No Comments »The German eco fashion scene is still growing, and our network party, organized toghether with Noel from Karmakonsum, was a proof of it. Despite a stuffed Fashion Week program, about 70 professionals and designers committed to ethical fashion visited the ...
Eco Fashion Guide for the Berlin Fashion Week
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | No Comments »Your Eco Fashion Guide for the Berlin Fashion Week: Although the amount of green designers and eco brands in Germany is still growing, the topic of eco fashion in Germany somehow slided away from the main stage again. There are some ...
Sustainable Clothing Company Hessnatur goes 2.0
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | No Comments »Hess Natur is a respected German clothing company who has been a pioneer in ethical and environmental responsibility for over twenty years. The company has recently made some interesting steps, some of them due to an enthoussiastic young guarde with ...
A Happy Green Year!
Thursday, January 8th, 2009 Posted in Blog, Environment, Fashion | No Comments »Happy green year to all readers of this blog! May the year be a good one for you and your planet! I'm looking forward to a fresh new year, to a year of new vision and a lot to come. We ...
Sweat & Shop Revisited
Thursday, December 4th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Design, Environment, Fashion | 1 Comment »Under the provocative name Sweat & Shop, Fashion designers, NGO representatives, experts, students, and bloggers gathered about a week ago to discuss the topic of sustainability and fashion. The workshop was organized by sustainability network 3plusX, the Grass Routes Foundation ...
Beyond Green: Dutch Sustainable Fashion Event
Monday, November 10th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | No Comments »Event tip: this Wednesday 12 November there is an international symposium entitlied Beyond Green, A Fashion Odyssey in the World Fashion Centre in Amsterdam. The aim of the symposium is to provide information to students and teaching staff in higher education, ...
Is Fashion a Dressed up Dinosaur?
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Energy & Climate, Environment, Fashion | 1 Comment »According to Permaculture co-founder David Holmgren we have enough clothing produced for the coming 20 years, so we don't need to waste our resources or time any more on clothing production, and can just let fashion die out like a ...
Organic Cotton Shirts for Nazi’s?
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | 4 Comments »Okay, more and more people are getting to know about organic cotton. But organic cotton Nazi shirts? I just read on a post on the german blog Korrekte Klamotten that some Nazi postorder company sells nice Nazi shirts made ...
Affentor: Luxury Recycling Bags from Frankfurt
Friday, October 17th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Design, Fashion | 2 Comments »I'm having a two day hang out in Frankfurt with Karmakonsum, brainstorming and working on new projects, and taking the challenge to visit a few cool projects here in Frankfurt as well. Yesterday I paid a visit to the shop and ...
Coolest Designers of the Ethical Fashion Show
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Design, Fashion | No Comments »The Ethical Fashion Show 2008 is over again. For those who can't wait till the next edition, the Ethical Fashion Show is also opening in Milan and Rio de Janairo, as we heard when we spoke with Isabelle Quehe, founder ...
Live from the Ethical Fashion Show in Paris
Saturday, October 11th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Fashion, Travel, Trends & Marketing | 1 Comment »A show with over hundreds of ethical fashion brands, exhibiting down under in the Louvre...that's something unique. With all the green fashion around, the Ethical Fashion Show has some name in pioneering for the ethical fashion trend. We arrived at ...
Green up the World with Grass Routes!
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | 3 Comments »It all started a few years ago. Cecilia came across the difficulties to find fair trade shirts for fair prices, and so we started investigating. We got excited of how many projects actually exist, and just wondered why we knew ...
Flashmobs in Hotpants to Fight Poverty
Monday, October 6th, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | 4 Comments »It's activism. It's marketing. It's sexy. It's fighting poverty. Pants to Poverty organizes Hotpants Flashmobs where young people gather on the streets in organic, fair trade underpants to fight poverty. Genious actions, they knwo what they are doing. And the ...
Chinchilla Fur + Polyester = Eco Fashion?
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 Posted in Activism, Blog, Fashion | 1 Comment »Japanese designer and furrier, Chie Imai, created an collection with the promising title "Eco Harmony", mixing chinchilla and mink fur and recycled polyester. “Tying ecology with fur is such a fascinating concept,” says Imai. “Fur can be worn for generations, ...
Atelier Sales at Eco Streetwear Label Slowmo
Saturday, September 27th, 2008 Posted in Berlin & Germany, Blog, Fashion | 1 Comment »Slowmo is a cool, green streetwear label from Berlin Friedrichshain, and this weekend they have sales at their Atelier.The clothes are made from 100% organic cotton and produced locally in Berlin. Felicia Moss, the designer of the label, told me ...
Baacode: Meet the Sheep that Made Your Sweater
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in Blog, Fashion, Trends & Marketing | 1 Comment »No it's not the first of April and this is a serious thing. A New Zealand company called Icebreaker developed a tracking system called the Baacode to track back the farm where the wool of an individual sweater comes from. Every ...